US celebrity drag queen RuPaul has won his first Emmy, at the Creative Arts Emmys in Los Angeles over the weekend.

The 55-year-old host of US reality TV series RuPaul's Drag Race bagged the award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, beating big names like American Idol's Ryan Seacrest and Dancing With the Stars' Tom Bergeron.

He told E! News: "I'm in a state of shock right now. I really did not expect this. Honestly, I feel like I'm in a dream and it's not really happening."